On Monday Russia launched various missile strikes across Ukrainian cities, killing 20 people and damaging a children’s hospital in Kyiv, according to the media reports.
Explosions came out and black smoke could be seen rising from the centre of Kyiv. Many residential buildings in the country were also targeted in the strikes
Pictures distributed from the Okhmatdyt Children’s Hospital in Kyiv showed people digging through mounds of rubble, black smoke billowing over a gutted building, and medical staff wearing blood-stained scrubs.
In a post on social media, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said, ‘Russian terrorists once again massively attacked Ukraine with missiles. Different cities: Kyiv, Dnipro, Kryvyi Rig, Sloviansk, Kramatorsk’.
‘More than 40 missiles of various types. Residential buildings, infrastructure and a children’s hospital were damaged’, Zelensky added. He also said that there were an unknown number of people trapped under the rubble of the children’s hospital and it was not known how many were killed.
The Russian strikes came as Zelensky was due in Warsaw, the Polish government said, before he flew to the NATO summit in Washington.
In Zelensky’s hometown Kryvyi Rig, which has been repeatedly targeted by Russian bombardments, the strikes killed at least 10 and wounded over 30. Meanwhile, in the eastern Donetsk region, the regional governor said three people were killed in Pokrovsk.
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